Saturday, 24 January 2015

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #423 Change Your Perspective

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #423 Change Your Perspective

One of the reasons people don’t get along is because they
have very different views. This is, of course, part of life and what makes us
all different. Respecting those differences seems to be a much harder thing for
most people to do; otherwise we wouldn’t be suffering the conflicts we have
around the world today. If we can find ways to reduce our conflict, the world
would be a better place.

One suggestion is to change your perspective. It’s something
that needs a fair bit of practice, because it’s hard to change the way you
think about things. Consider a room full of artists, all painting a picture of
a model posing in the centre of the room. Every single painting will be different,
because each artist sees the model from a different angle. The model is exactly
the same person in each painting, but will look completely different – not wrong,
just different. That’s the way it can be with our views of the world. So shift
your position now and then to look at things with a new light. Try seeing
things through the eyes of a child, or listen to the perspective of an old
person who has experienced life. If we can acknowledge in our hearts that
others see things differently, not wrongly, and that that is okay, we can create
better communities, happier places to live and a better world.

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I am a writer, emerging artist, quiltmaker and public speaker. My current art installation is a work in progress, titled "1000 Flowers for the Planet". Every day, for 1000 days, I will blog one flower with a positive suggestion for how we can improve the planet - environmental, social, moral and ethical ideas. Please join me on this journey, send me your ideas for further suggestions and feel free to comment. If everyone took up only 1% of the ideas (i.e. 10 new actions), imagine the shift in the world!!
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